For example, internet email programs like Gmail, Hotmail or Yahoo store your emails on their servers.

BBC: The business travel benefits of cloud computing

Internet service providers (ISPs) are starting to realise that they must try to outwit spammers outside the legal arena too, or lose business as disgusted customers go elsewhere. (ISPs also lose money because of spam, since they must pay to store and transmit it.) This spring AOL, Microsoft and Yahoo!

ECONOMIST: Spam in the dock

While its DRM'd subscription deals remain in place, Rhapsody is now offering unprotected MP3 downloads via its Rhapsody MP3 store and via partners including Verizon's VCAST over-the-air service and Yahoo.

ENGADGET: Rhapsody ditches (some) DRM, selling MP3s with Verizon and Yahoo